La Vernia resident Mattison Koepp, 16, walks out on to the stage with her steer at the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Koepp took home the Grand Champion Steer of the Show.

It didn’t take long to make the Junior Steer Show Grand Champion a rich young woman. La Vernia resident Mattison Koepp, 16, brings her grand champion steer Alley Cat on to the auction stage for ...

Texas high school sophomore Mattison Koepp, sold her Grand Champion steer, Alley Cat, for $375,000 to Vaden Acoustics and Drywall Inc. The reserve grand champion steer brought $300,000.

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo’s 2025 grand champion steer sold Saturday morning for $375,000. The grand champion steer, an American Cross named Alley Cat, sold to ...

We want a supermodel!" Hoge gave the best in their classes one final look before slapping the back end of an American Cross named Alley Cat, which was Mattison Koepp's year-long La Vernia FFA project.

Within minutes, the bidding for Mattison Koepp’s prize American Crossbreed, Alley Cat, had reached six figures at Saturday’s Junior Sale of Champions at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.

The big winner was Mattison Koepp, 16, from La Vernia, with her steer Alley Cat, an American Crossbreed. Koepp was the reserve junior champion in 2024, when her prize steer sold for upwards of ...

It didn’t take long to make the Junior Steer Show Grand Champion a rich young woman. Mattison Koepp won the prize on Friday, Feb. 7. On Saturday, Feb. 8, her American Crossbreed, Alley Cat, went up ...